For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.

We're all born with the greatest treasures we'll ever have in life. One of those treasures is your mind, another is your heart.

They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

Love cannot reconcile with deception

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

We come from the land, give our love and labor to her, and she nurtures us in return. When we die, we return to the land. In a way, she owns us. Palestine owns us and we belong to her

Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.

How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

The prettiest girls shine brightest in the dark.

True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

I haven't been unfaithful, well only when I was younger!

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

I've been incredibly blessed.

The most important thing to me is winning tournaments. I love winning.